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Toshinobu Kubota
Toshinobu "Toshi" Kubota is a Japanese singer, songwriter, musician, music producer, and radio personality. He has produced six million-seller records and thirty-three Top 40 singles during his career. Kubota is currently part of Sony Music Japan. In addition, he has composed and written songs for many singers including Hiromi Iwasaki, Misia, Toshinori Yonekura, Kyōko Koizumi, and many other recording artists. Kubota's musical genre has varied throughout his career including R&B, Go-go, soul, funk, blues, reggae, old skool, psychedelia, jazz, and pop. His artistic influences include Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, and Sly Stone. Kubota has pioneered in the sound "Japanese hip hop" and "Japanese soul", an amalgam of funk, pop, R&B and go that has influenced many other musicians. Kubota has a tenor and falsetto vocal range and is known for his signature songs "Dance If You Want It", "Missing", "Love Rain", "You Were Mine", "Give You My Love", and "La La La Love Song", which was the theme song of the television drama Long Vacation. Kubota has a total of seventeen studio albums and ten compilation albums. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshinobu_Kubota) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)

Songs

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La La La Love Song
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LOVE RAIN ～恋の雨～ - Love Rain - Koino Ame
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Missing
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流星のサドル - Ryu-sei No Saddle
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You Were Mine
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Albums

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Beautiful People

Album • 2019
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Gold Skool

Album • 2011
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United Flow

Album • 2002
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THE BADDEST - Collaboration

Album • 2016
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Timeless Fly

Album • 2010
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As One

Album • 2000
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L.O.K

Album • 2015
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FOR REAL?

Album • 2006
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Parallel World II KUBOSSA

Album • 2013
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Time To Share

Album • 2004

Singles

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Life Like This

2024
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Sonohito

2019
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Loving Power

2015
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the Beat of Life

2024
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FUN FUN CHANT

2019
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Upside Down / Free Style

2014
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Boogie Ride / Sora no Uta

2020
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So Beautiful

2018
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LIFE ("Byouinno Naoshikata" Version)

2020
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You Go Lady

2018

Videos

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久保田利伸 - 流星のサドル [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 884K views
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久保田利伸 - So Beautiful [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 1.3M views
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久保田利伸 - the Beat of Life [Official Video]

Toshinobu Kubota • 615K views
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久保田利伸 - LA･LA･LA LOVE SONG with NAOMI CAMPBELL [Official Video] (feat. Naomi Campbell)

Toshinobu Kubota • 3.3M views

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Heisei Era Hits

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Japan Big Hits

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Japan Hits: '90s

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Japan Hits: '80s

Playlist • YouTube Music
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Platinum Certified J-Pop

Playlist • YouTube Music

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